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Have any F9? I've had guys just spray a little on black streaks and wash off. They came out right away.

Looks great!

That's great, Thad. Kristopher, there are quite a few selling books, audio tapes, web things etc that can help you too. I'd recommend to look into the art of selling type books and little by little, apply what you learn to every new customer. Pay close attention to what they need and don't over sell your services. Ultimately, people buy because they like, trust and respect you. These are key points. Find a way to relate to your customer and find common ground and interests. Many times you can close a deal and never even really talk about the job! After talking to them a while, gain their trust...be yourself... then tell them the price and give them a date with a couple times you can be there.

My wife and I just got done watching this video on GMO's. I think it is imperative you all watch it through. It will bring you up to speed a bit on part of the problem we have in the US and what it is doing to people who are unaware of it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnlTYFKBg18&feature=youtube_gdata_player

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Jason, Jasco 1-Gallon Premium Paint and Epoxy Remover GJBP00203 at The Home Depot Call me if you need help. We use this in conjunction with water recovery. Otherwise it's too messy.

It looks like old peeling sealer. Are you going to strip it all down first? Just by looking at it that is a job that would take me 10 seconds to politely say "no thanks" and walk away. Here's why: The sealer looks old, moldy and infected. The white area that is bubbling had degraded, bubbled and peeled. What is your customer expecting from this cleaning and sealing? Just curious.. I'd like to see what it looks like after you clean it. Hopefully a lot better. But if the sealer is compromised and there is mold underneath from moisture coming up through it you'd have to do a total restoration ie, strip, clean and reseal. Those pavers are covered in calcite. It looks like years of accumulation and by how white they are the only thing that will touch them is straight HCL mixed 1:1 with water. And then you'll probably need to do it 10 times to get it about 95% off. You might luck out though... sometimes the white gets transparent enough that you only need to clean in once. Even if there is left over calcite, the sealer you use (with color enhancers) will hopefully darken and even out the tones. Personally, I would walk away from this one. It's a character builder. We could do it but I've done enough of them to pass on the rest.

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Wondering why you would post this? Muriatic will etch the concrete, create an aggregate surface due to the amorphous paste created with the HCL reaction and lime/anyhydrous calcium silicate hydrate in the concrete. Pressure washing will ensure a permanent spot. HCL does not react with stucco to soften it, only discolor it. If you put enough HCL on the concrete you might be able to seep enough under a stucco spot to loosen the bond between it and the concrete but the amount of HCL used to do this would make a really big impact on the concrete around it. Martin- the only thing I've found to work OK is to mist the concrete with water, apply Jasco premium paint/epoxy remover and lightly scratch it out with a #1 steel wool.

A 2.0 should lower your pressure a little but that's not a bad thing. 1. When it's shut off are the surface cleaner spinner bars easy to spin? 2. If they are, then your tips probably aren't angled steep enough into the concrete to spin the bar.

Nice work!

Nice job!

Here's a job we did today: Customer had spent the last 5 years washing off his golf cart on his patio. These are battery acid stains, commonly known as "rust" but are not and are actually VERY deeply embedded into the concrete. This is why rust removers are ineffective at removing this kind of stain. Rust removers only handle to topical stain. The stuff we use works on both types of stains- acid burn and rust. At a minimum, we can get 85-90% of the worst staining out of concrete. Normally we are around 95-100%. This job we got 90% of the worst, 100% of the other stuff. Notice that the white stains are still there. White staining came from concentrated sulfuric battery acid and we have seen it eat through an entire 4" slab of concrete. Not much you can do for the white damage, unfortunately.

It has worked on everything we've ever tried it on, including stucco, drivit, vinyl and even asphalt. Always do a test spot first and on EVERYTHING OTHER THAN CONCRETE mist the surface with water first. F9 is powerful stuff and misting a non-related concrete surface with water will help dilute it down. Also, use less material on those surfaces too. -DO NOT USE ON METALS OR GLASS!- It can etch these surfaces. ;) Another add, we've used it on stone and slate surfaces too, excellent results.

Hi Hugh- Long time Bud. Give me a call if you have a chance early this week. We have some things going on in your area I want to clue you in on. Thanks,

Sounds good. Remember- if you buy a case you get a FREE listing on F9 BARC : The Ultimate Concrete Cleaner under Professional Applicator. We have marketing materials to get you started too.

Thanks, David.

Hi Ed and Sally, We used F9 BARC, by Front 9 Restoration. Front 9 is our manufacturing company and we have been working on several highly specialized chems for several years. I also own Eco-Friendly Power Washing, Inc. so we are in the field every day, just like everyone else and primarily working on specialized cleaning, restorations and product development. Take a look at this link. These are the results of most products available on the market: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.454284401263322.106534.379340482091048&type=1 These are before and after's of BARC on cement: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.204440412958469.47077.202131603189350&type=3 Here are before/afters on asphalt: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.3357617029840.2124218.1551431206&type=1&l=eff8b39193

Did this job ever get done?

Reasons NOT to use anything but F9 BARC for removing rust, fertilizer and orange battery acid stains on your concrete: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.454284401263322.106534.379340482091048&type=1&notif_t=like These were all take on ONE STREET where I live- in only 10 minutes of walking. Aside from the permanent damage, there are ways for a professional to "fix" this that would look decent. If you come across this, run your surface cleaner over it a few times in at least two different directions. This will help even out the surface damage. If you have BARC, apply it and it will even out the color damage.

You nailed it, Chris. A big opportunity we have as an industry RIGHT NOW is to educate the public and get the news out that we have an answer for these kinds of stains (battery stains). In the past, battery acid stains have been thought of as rust because they look the same. And more people have battery acid stains on their concrete than rust stains. So when Mr. Homeowner goes to the store and gets a rust remover he winds up causing damage because he sees a product formulated for "rust" and the rust is not going away. Therefore, he uses more and more product causing more and more damage. Meanwhile, we are trying to kill two birds with one stone. We have formulated a product that doesn't depend on what the perception of your customer is. BARC's formulation includes both rust and battery acid stains so even if they or you don't diagnose the problem correctly, someone will have a cure for it! Isn't that the ultimate goal?

Hi Chaz, You're right, someone else's misuse of another product doesn't make mine the end all be all for rust removal. Funny thing is, the people who did this to their driveways DID NOT misuse the products they bought, they were FOLLOWING THE INSTRUCTIONS. Also, if you take a closer look at the pictures you will find that this is not just 1 single job, this is 10 different areas. What I didn't mention is that these "jobs" were performed by 3 homeowners who took matters into their own hands, 1 landscape company and 2 separate "pressure washing companies." The pictures I took were of just the worst damage areas. On this street with 100 homes, I'd say 40 of them had damage of some kind. Sorry if you feel I'm being pretentious in my mission to help other contractors. I can't change the way you feel. I'm here to let anyone who is familiar with these types of problems.. people who deal with this kind of stuff everyday, find a solution. The truth of the matter is that F9 BARC has been proven, over and over again, in over 3,500 jobs in one of the most heavily dominated golf course demographics in the world. Both I and other contractors in my area have tried every product we could find and have used them, side by side against the results F9 BARC can achieve. We have not found another product that can come close to it in terms of versatility and results. This kind of damage is world wide. Golf course communities have thousands of homes with driveways that look like this.

Calcium can be both white or black. It can even take on the colors of the landscape rocks if the rocks are watered and then flows down the side of the concrete. Most of the time it will eventually turn black from impurities. Magnesium staining usually looks gray- light and dark. I've had HOA's give tickets to their homeowners for magnesium stains in their concrete because they thought they were oil stains. The white you see in the picture is from cigarette disposal bins. I remember thinking, "why is there calcium buildup around these things.. they don't have water coming out of them.." It was very strange. The reason that rings were forming under the bins was that the alkali-silica reactions were coming up through the concrete and not forming from topical water exposure. I think the employees were baffled too. You can see where they kept moving the bin all the way around the palm tree, but the reactions were happening everywhere.